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...demonstration was not a world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson...
...Halifax, N. S. the rum-running Josephine K., whose captain was killed by U. S. gunfire last winter off New York, arrived with her bow and stern staved in and a yarn of deliberately ramming a U. S. Coast Guard vessel in revenge...
...knew of. The late Dr. Russell H. Conwell, former pastor of Temple Baptist Church, Philadelphia was also made a Mason in China. As a young man he was sent to China as a correspondent for a New York newspaper. He became very friendly with the captain of the vessel he sailed on and among other things discussed Masonry, with the result that when they reached China Dr. Conwell expressed the desire to become a Free Mason. So the captain hunted up a lodge and entered, passed and raised Dr. Conwell in Free Masonry...
...vessel which the French Government sent for the celebration was an appropriate choice. Ys is a fabled lost city off the coast of Brittany, where romantic sailors sometimes hear church-bells ringing under the water. Canada is the lost French colony, whose fate was decided when the French army surrendered at Montreal...
Most glorious chapter of U. S. shipping history was the one written by the clipperships, fleetest commercial vessels ever whipped over the seas by the winds. Homeport for the majority of clippers was Baltimore. Last week as a late afternoon sun was sending its slanting rays over Chesapeake Bay a steam vessel cast off from a new Baltimore pier, nosed into midchannel. After stopping at Norfolk she cleared for Havre and Hamburg. Official civic celebration marked the sailing for she was City of Baltimore, first transatlantic passenger ship to be documented out of Baltimore since the clippers, first sailing...